Join our Merchant Integrations API Platform team and help businesses unlock the power of Affirm! We are a team of engineers and specialists who design, build, and manage the API platform that connects merchants to Affirm’s loan services. Our work empowers merchants to easily integrate loan options into their checkout process, giving customers more payment flexibility. Come join us as we build a beloved, lasting financial services brand predicated on honesty and trust. It’s going to be an amazing ride!

What you’ll do:

• Work with product and engineering managers to identify and plan projects based on the team goals and resources.
• Drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Consistently generate simple and elegant designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others.
• Build relationships with people across engineering and other organizations for the design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance of projects.
• Actively participate in making your  team and workplace an inclusive environment for people from all backgrounds.

What we look for:

• 2 - 3 years of experience as a software engineer
• Passion for working with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Analytics and Business teams.
• Ability to synthesize complex business, product, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software.
• Experience succeeding as the technical lead of a large, potentially ambiguous project involving multiple stakeholders and contributors.
• A humble team-player who places the needs of others first, participates in the development of peers on the team, and mentors and guides more junior members in areas where they may have less experience.
• Exposure to any of the following technologies is a plus, but not required: API development, Python, MySql, ElasticSearch, AWS, Docker, and Flask/Celery.

In addition, we look for

• Take Ownership. You enjoy working with product and engineering leaders to develop detailed project definitions, and drive technical decisions within your team
• Execute. You have a proven track record of developing, testing, and shipping high-quality software at scale
• Collaborate. You communicate clearly both verbally and in writing. If anything, you trend towards over-communication
• Build Teams. You grow with engineers around you through sharing your learnings and providing feedback to your peers that will help the team grow
• Customer-centric mentality. You are empathetic to the user experience and thoughtful about what we can do to make it better

Compensation & Benefits